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The Complexity of Color Usage: 2024 Update
Way, way back in the year 2015 – which in the world of the internet was about a millenia ago – I wrote an essay about color and the complexity of...
WHAT’S NEXT? BREAKING DOWN THE PREDICTIONS FOR DESIGN TRENDS IN 2016
As we near the end of 2015, web design blogs are a-flutter over what they predict will be the hippest, coolest things in web design next year. While...
DESIGNING FOR THE END-USER – WHY IS SITE USABILITY SO IMPORTANT?
Please note: this post was originally published in 2015 prior to the increased scrutiny on usability in terms of ADA in design. So, while the...
TYPOGRAPHY – THE SECRET GARDEN OF WEB DESIGN
One of the greatest travesties I see in design is the dis-use and mis-use of fonts (heretofore known as typography) in web design. Working in our...
WHAT COLOR SHOULD I USE ON MY SITE? THE ANSWER ISN’T AS CLEAR AS YOU MAY THINK…
We’ve talked about photography use in site design and how it visually aligns a business to its’ end-user and can visually establish a narrative of...
SHOULD MY CLIENT USE CUSTOM PHOTOGRAPHY? YES, PLEASE!
In my last blog post, I began to address the use of custom, client-supplied photography for our sites. The why of it is really quite simple –...
ALL ABOUT THE PHOTOS: TO STOCK OR NOT TO STOCK
I can’t tell you the number of times I’m asked to talk about photo use on websites. What’s better – stock images or client-supplied images? Abstract...